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| Stella- No. Please don't fuss. |
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| Pam- Lizzie, you might give some thought to lunch, although I doubt if anyone will be hungry. |
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| Lizzie- Will Miss Wendy be staying much longer? |
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| Lizzie- Good. If you ask me, she's to blame for what happened. Tarot cards. Ha! |
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| Pam- Did you sleep at all? |
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| Stella- I've never slept so soundly. I don't know what Dr. Scott gave me. I suppose Grandfather is furious. |
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| Pam- I don't think he'll ever permit you to visit again. I'm sorry that the first night you slept here was so trying. |
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| Stella- I have a confession. It wasn't the first time. |
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| Pam- I meant since you were a child. |
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| Stella- Do you remember the time you and Roddy went into Boston? I called you that day. Grandfather was in the hospital. |
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| Stella- I came to the house, let myself in. I was alone. Quite alone. Lizzie was gone, too. |
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| Pam- She spent the night with the Jessups. Stella, that was a dangerous thing to do. |
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| Stella- I knew she was here, my mother. I could smell her perfume. She was in the nursery...weeping. |
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| Stella- Oh, no. My mother loves me. I know that now. I was happier than I have ever been in my life. I just lay, warm and quiet, watching the light, and knowing that she was near. |
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| Commander Brooke- Rubbish. Dr.Scott told me about your dash from the house, your exhaustion. I understand some malignant presence was seen. |
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| Pam- I'm afraid that's true. However, Stella thinks that the presence is a gentle and loving one. |
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| Commander Brooke- Why do you torment me in this fashion? Why do you torment yourself? Is Stella to go through life burdened with the thought that in this house is her mother's spirit-whith that dreadful, blashphemous belief? |
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| Pam- I have never heard a woman praised and remembered as your daughter is, Commander Brooke. |
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| Stella- Oh, Miss Holloway. It isn't true what Grandfather said. |
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| Pam- I hope you'll be able to spare us a few minutes. |
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| Stella- Yes, Grandfather. |
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| Pam- Won't you sit down, Miss Holloway. |
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| Miss Holloway- I doubt that, Mr. Fitzgerald. |
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| Pam- He's being torn to pieces. |
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| Miss Holloway- You are in trouble. Can I help you some way? |
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| Pam- You lived with Stella for some years, didn't you? |
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| Miss Holloway- I sacrificed ten years of my career to complete the work Mary had begun. That was my tribute to my martyred friend. I have not regretted it. |
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| Pam- We thought you would, perhaps, tell us whether Mary Meredith-whether she went through some great sorrow at Cliff End. We hear so much weeping. |
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| Roddy- We have no right to ask, but we think that possibly her grief, her emotions, may have some influence in the house. If we could understand it- |
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| Pam- You'd be doing us a great kindness. |
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| Miss Holloway- To create a center of healing which would use means beyond the physical. Mary had money inherited from her mother, and she was eager to use itin doing good. However, there followed the journey to Spain, that disastrous marriage and the entrance of that evil genius into Mary's beautiful life. |
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| Miss Holloway- I should think that was fairly obvious. Carmel's infatuatuion and Luis's dubious charm. |
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| Pam- You mean she had fallen in love with Luis Meredith? |
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| Miss Holloway- Love? I'd hardly call it that. Neither of those two were capable of love. |
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| Pam- Mary permitted Carmel to remain? |
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| Miss Holloway- You don't help the weak to overcome their sin by removing them from temptation. With anyone less depraved than those two, Mary's tender guidance would have prevailed. Mary even trusted Carmel with her baby. Mary's own charity deceived her, but not for long. She had sacrficed herself for Carmel, but she would not sacrafice her child. She sent for me. |
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| Pam- Was Carmel harming Stella? |
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| Miss Holloway- The baby did nothing but cry. Carmel would rush to her, cover her with kisses. She was destroying the child. Broke all discipline, ignored all rules. I forbade her to enter the nursery. |
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| Miss Holloway- He travelled much of the time, amusing himself. Eventually he secured employment for Carmel in Paris in a fashion house. |
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| Pam- Free from Carmel, I expect you had peace-you, Mary and Stella. |
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| Miss Holloway- He proposed to paint her. |
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Pre cue line: Roddy - I think we know what that "first-class" idea was. To paint her as she was and, then, show what she had beome.
Miss Holloway- Yes. |
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| Pam- Did Carmel suspect what he was doing? |
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| Miss Holloway- ................. Mary flung herself toward Carmel to pull her back and then- |
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| Pam- (dramatic pause) Please go on. |
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| Miss Holloway- ..............now I must say goodbye. |
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| Pam- Thank you, Miss Holloway. |
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| Roddy- I have a feeling we ought to applaud. What do you make of all that? |
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| Pam- What she meant us to make of it. It's Carmel who weeps. |
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| Roddy- What a household! Meredith a cynic, Carmel a vixen, Holloway a wire-pulling hypocrite, and Mary a - |
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| Roddy- ...............We are seeing Mary through her eyes. |
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| Pam- It can't go on Roddy. Someone will be hurt. |
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| Roddy- We could shut up the nursery. |
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| Pam- That won't be enough. |
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| Roddy- Either we make peace with whatever haunts Cliff End, or it drives us from the house. If that happens, we lose everything. Flat broke with nothing to show for it. If only the Commander's daughter could speak. |
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| Pam- I'm out of love with Mary Meredith. Think of leaving the baby in Holloway's cold hands. Holloway certainly hates Carmel. She probably strangled her. |
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| Roddy- In pneumonia, a little neglect goes quite a long way. |
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| Pam- We've been making ourseles polite to a murderess? |
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| Roddy- I'm ready to believe it. I wouldn't mind trying to prove it, if only we could call a ghost into court. |
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| Roddy- I'm not following. |
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| Pam- If a spirit is trying to communicate with us, there is one thing we ought to try. We could hold a seance. |
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